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New York City resident Ben Sturner captured these photos September 10, 2015, the day before the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Amazing NYC Rainbow

With the opening of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) through the Russian arctic earlier this month, the two major shipping routes through the Arctic are now both

  With a fleet of 63 state-of-the-art LNG carriers, including 14 of the world’s largest Q-Max vessels, Qatar Gas Transport Company Ltd, aka Nakilat,

  Another record at the Port of Long Beach as cargo volume once again breaks its all-time cargo volume record for the second month in a row. The Port

COPENHAGEN, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Shipping freight rates for transporting containers from Asia to Northern Europe fell 23 percent to $588 per 20-foot

  The U.S. Coast Guard has detained a Panamanian-flagged car carrier in the Port of Tacoma this week due to safety deficiencies including an inoperable

  Australian authorities have detained a Panama-flagged bulk carrier over several crew labor violations including non-payment of wages. The Australian

  WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A bill to repeal the U.S. ban on oil exports gained momentum on Thursday, when it passed a House of

  Athens-based dry bulk shipping company DryShips, Inc. announced Monday agreements to sell 17 vessels and says its remaining fleet is now held for sale,

  The Peruvian Navy has confiscated more than 200 kilograms of cocaine found onboard a Teekay LNG tanker while at anchor near the Port of Pisco, Peru.

  Sept 10 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, which tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell on

  By Saleha Mohsin (Bloomberg) — When Luke Rickert first started as an engineer at Aker Solutions ASA in Oslo, a Norwegian oil services provider,

  LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Nigeria has lifted a ban on 113 vessels into its territorial waters, a letter from the NNPC seen by Reuters on

  By Joshua Fellman (Bloomberg) — China COSCO Holdings Co., one of the nation’s biggest shipping companies, agreed to have 11 new container

  By Naomi Christie (Bloomberg) — For operators of very large crude carriers, the tankers that move as much as 2 million barrels of oil across

  China has amended its 15 year-old Air Pollution Prevention and Control Law to tackle shipping emissions for the first time, local media reports. The

Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said Wednesday it has secured two orders from Japanese clients to build next-generation LNG carriers to transport U.S.

Teekay’s Offshore’s Dampier Spirit knows how to use a selfie stick. The Floating Storage and Offloading Unit (FSO) is operating offshore

  By Ott Ummelas (Bloomberg) — Baltic ferry operator Tallink Grupp AS is benefiting from growing numbers of Asian travelers to Nordic capitals as

  EU Naval Force Operation Commander warned a room full of shipping executives that while Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden is down,